People, Politics and Power presents some of the most recent thinking on politics and society in Ireland from the restoration to the Great Famine. Written by students and colleagues of James I. McGuire, the essays reflect McGuire's scholarly engagement with the interaction between the individual and the political arena, the Church of Ireland, the exercise of power in all its multifarious manifestations, and political biography.

• 'James I. McGuire: a personal memoir', Art Cosgrove
• 'John Bramhall's second Irish career, 1660-3', John McCafferty
• 'The Irish legal profession and the Catholic revival, 1660-1689', Hazel Maynard
• 'The early modern Irish outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon', Éamonn Ó Ciardha
• 'Alan Brodrick and the speakership of the Irish House of Commons, 1703-4', Charles Ivar McGrath
• 'Irish private divorce bills and acts of the eighteenth century', John Bergin
• 'Catholic disaffection and the oath of allegiance of 1774', Vincent Morley
• 'Defending the established order: Richard Woodward, bishop of Cloyne (1726-94)', James Kelly
• 'Daniel O'Connell and the Irish Act of Union, 1800-29', Patrick M. Geoghegan
• 'Thomas Davis and the Patriot Parliament of 1689', James Quinn
• 'The historical writings of James I. McGuire', Clara Cullen

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"In an elegant, persuasive account of Catholic attitudes towards the 1774 oath of allegiance (to the Hanoverian king) Vincent Morley makes an analogous point even more forthrightly: 'ideology has a life of its own' ... Jacobite sentiment long survived all prospect of a Stuart restoration."

Jim Smyth, Irish Studies Review, May 2010.